A blog by Matt Kraus

Month: January 2015

This will be an abbreviated weekly report with just some thoughts on Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper and a few more recent releases. I’ll bring back the usual bells and whistles next time.Continue reading →

Now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. No doubt you’ve spent the last day pacing around your living quarters, waiting for this post to arrive. At last, I can reveal my top five films of 2014. If you want to see 25 more movies I liked last year, be sure to click here, here, here, and then here. Thank you all for reading. Let’s get this over with. Continue reading →

It’s Thursday! This means, at last, we have cracked my top 10 films of the year. If you want to look back at numbers 30 to 11, be sure to click here, here and here. Then, at last, you may feel comfortable looking at what’s below. Don’t want to spoil it for yourself, do you? Continue reading →

We have now reached day three of this countdown, which is starting to seem more drawn out than The Hobbit. (Peter Jackson burn!) This post covers numbers 15 to 11. You can find the last two days here and here. Now let’s get back to the fun part. Continue reading →

Welcome again to my week-long countdown of the best films of 2014. Yesterday, I began with films numbered 30-21, which you can find here. In this post, you will find numbers 20 through 16. Read on, my friends. We’ve only just begun! Continue reading →

Well, this should be fun. Instead of simply publishing my usual annual top 10 list, I’ve decided to take it up a notch and instead post a top 30 list, slowly revealing my picks over the course of the week. We’ll begin with the bottom of the list, and this will also be the longest of the five installments, taking us from number 30 all the way up to number 21. Then, starting tomorrow, each installment will have just five films, culminating in my top five on Friday. So now, without further ado, let’s get started.